Suicide
“One of the acutest and most brilliant sociologists.”
Bronislaw Malinowski“Suicide is used by Durkheim as a means of demonstrating
the key impact of social factors on our personal lives and even
our most intimate motives. The book succeeds brilliantly,
both as a technical study of suicide and as a fundamental
contribution to this broader issue. Students of sociology will
continue to be required to study this book, which will remain
on the sociological agenda for many years yet to come.”
Anthony Giddens
“Suicide remains one of the most incisive and profound critiques
of modern society ever written. The first exemplar of
modern ‘scientific sociology’, Durkheim’s classic demonstrated
the relevance of multivariate statistical sociology to
the most compelling moral and existential issues of the day. In
his insistence on the centrality of social solidarity, Durkheim
issued a challenge that contemporary sociologists have yet to
meet.”
Jeffrey Alexander
“Suicide is a sociological masterpiece on three counts: it
addresses a problem of great social significance which evokes
the moral concern of both author and reader, it assembles and
analyses a large quantity of factual information and it
develops an original and sophisticated theoretical argument.”
Gianfranco Poggi

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